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What role does imagination play in producing knowledge about the world?,…
- What role does imagination play in producing knowledge about the world?
imagination can play a destructive role as often we get limited information about something and our imagination fills the gap, which could be bad as we might jump to conclusion about some fact and that could bring danger to oneself
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limit our thinking, no open mindedness
based on our likes and dislikes our imagination caters towards our viewpoints, it gives us a very subjective view point
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Counterpoint: imagination developmental roles in producing information on the world, as we gain limited information and try to fill in the gaps, sometimes after many trial and errors, we are able to find the right information to confirm knowledge
science hypothesis, experiments
science thoeries, human science
A: our imagination in certain topics comes from curiosity, nd this curiosity to gain more knowledge allows us to come up with theories to have and test which could eventually be true
imagination can play a critical role in producing knowledge, as for some knowledge, such as things that we have not witnessed in the past, its very hard to gain enough evidence to have an explanation for some things, which is why we come up with theories to make more sense of the world
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counterpoint: though theories with some degree of evidence and accuracy are made, the fact that it might be false raises the question that it might not even be knowledge in the first place, which means that imagination might not play the role of "producing knowledge about the world"
the chances that our imagination actually barely produces knowledges as our theories are mostly false, leading us to think fake knowledge due to our overthinking. It is through evidence and explanation that we produce knowledge, not imagination itself
imagination plays a specialized role in producing knowledge, as most often when we produce knowledge about the world in our head, we aren't given all the information, we are given some of it, then we use our imagination to make sense of it. This is why we interpret information differently
as people say that 10% is what happens to you, 90% is how you respond to it
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analysis:to what extent do we perceive things differently from others, as our DNA is 99.95 similar at the minimum, though we think we are different maybe we experience things very similarly. We all would have similar wants and needs.
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relevant real world context: when producing knowledge our imagination will come into play just to try and make sense of the world, this could affect an individual positively or negatively
when the knowledge is personal we often spiral down this negative route which makes us insecure or anxious. we often create conspiracy theories, assume the worst outcome
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counterpoint: imagination does not play a specialized role in producing knowledge, as when we produce knowledge of the world, as some facts and information are the same for everyone, and you can't interpret it differently. And even though people people interpret experiences differently even when in the same situation together, the experience was still the same for everyone meaning that imagination was not needed for prdoucing knowledge,a nd it is not specialized.
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producing
make something, bring something into the world
